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Mirella Freni: Opera Arias 1963 - 1995

Digitally remastered from Austrian Radio 1963–1995

Mirella Freni (soprano), Gianni Raimondi (Rodolfo), Plácido Domingo (Rodolfo), Alberto Rinaldi (Marcello), Luciano Pavarotti (Rodolfo), Orazio Mori (Schaunard), Margarita Guglielmi (Musetta), Wolfgang Brendel (Marcello), Peter Dvorsky (Des Grieux), Luis Lima (Don Carlo), Plácido Domingo (Otello),...

the spontaneity of the theatre brings a special vividness to all of these interpretations...Freni portrays every character very touchingly indeed, especially Elisabetta...[She] blazes through... — International Record Review, November 2010 More…

Release Date: 28th Jun 2010
Catalogue No: C806102
Label: Orfeo
Series: Orfeo d'Or, Wiener Staatsoper Live
Length: 2 hours 36 minutes

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Excerpt, Puccini: La Bohème

Work length28:05

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$7.80

Luciano Pavarotti, Carlos Kleiber, Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper, Gianni Raimondi, Plácido Domingo, Orazio Mori, Herbert von Karajan, Claudio Abbado, Mirella Freni, Alberto Rinaldi, Seiji Ozawa, Margarita Guglielmi, Wolfgang Brendel, Chor der Wiener Sta, Claudio Abbado, Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper, García Navarro, Luciano Pavarotti, Herbert von Karajan, Seiji Ozawa, Mirella Freni, Orazio Mori, Chor der Wiener Staatsoper, Gianni Raimondi, Margarita Guglielmi, Plácido Domingo, Wolfgang Brendel, Alberto, Orazio Mori, Herbert von Karajan, Claudio Abbado, Mirella Freni, Seiji Ozawa, Margarita Guglielmi, Wolfgang Brendel, Chor der Wiener Staatsoper, Gianni Raimondi, Plácido Domingo, Carlos Kleiber, Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper, Alberto Rinaldi, García Nav, Luciano Pavarotti, Herbert von Karajan, Mirella Freni, Orazio Mori, Chor der Wiener Staatsoper, Gianni Raimondi, Margarita Guglielmi, Plácido Domingo, Wolfgang Brendel, Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper, Alberto Rinaldi, Carlos Kleiber, Claudio Abbado, Garc, Plácido Domingo, Orazio Mori, Chor der Wiener Staatsoper, Herbert von Karajan, Carlos Kleiber, Mirella Freni, Alberto Rinaldi, Claudio Abbado, Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper, Margarita Guglielmi, Wolfgang Brendel, Seiji Ozawa, García Navarro, Gianni Raim, Wolfgang Brendel, Margarita Guglielmi, Alberto Rinaldi, Mirella Freni, Orazio Mori, Plácido Domingo, Gianni Raimondi, Luciano Pavarotti
Chor der Wiener Staatsoper, Wiener Staatsoper
Claudio Abbado, Seiji Ozawa, Herbert von Karajan, Carlos Kleiber, Garcia Navarro

Si Mi chiamano Mimi

Track length5:19

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Mimi! ... Speravo di trovarvi qui

Track length5:14

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Marcello, finalmente

Track length5:38

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D'onde lieta usci

Track length3:35

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Sono andati?

Track length8:19

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Excerpt, Puccini: Manon Lescaut

Work length13:39

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$3.90

Vladimir Atlantov, Mirella Freni, Peter Dvorský
Wiener Staatsoper
James Levine, Giuseppe Sinopoli

Sola, perduta, abbandonata

Track length5:51

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Fra le tue braccia, amore

Track length7:48

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Excerpt, Verdi: Don Carlos (Five-act French version)

Work length19:44

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Mirella Freni, Luis Lima
Wiener Staatsoper
Claudio Abbado, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Herbert von Karajan, Hans Graf, Fabio Luisi

Io vengo a domandar

Track length9:49

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Tu che la vanita

Track length9:55

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Excerpt, Verdi: Otello

Work length10:44

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Mirella Freni, Plácido Domingo, Luis Lima
Wiener Staatsoper
James Levine, Roberto Abbado

Dio ti giocondi, o sposo

Track length10:44

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Excerpt, Verdi: Simon Boccanegra

Work length4:54

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Mirella Freni
Wiener Staatsoper
Hans Graf

Come in quest'ora bruna

Track length4:54

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Excerpt, Verdi: Aida

Work length19:40

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Luciano Pavarotti, Mirella Freni
Chor der Wiener Staatsoper, Wiener Staatsoper
Roberto Abbado

Ritorna vincitor!

Track length7:44

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La fatal pietra sovra me si chiuse

Track length11:56

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Excerpt, Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin

Work length28:54

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Wolfgang Brendel, Mirella Freni
Wiener Staatsoper
Seiji Ozawa

Puskai pogibnu ya, no pryezhde

Track length13:51

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O! Kak mnye tyazhelo! ... Onegin! Ya togda molozhe

Track length15:03

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Excerpt, Tchaikovsky: Pique Dame

Work length14:32

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$3.90

Vladimir Atlantov, Mirella Freni
Wiener Staatsoper
Seiji Ozawa

Uzh polnoch blizitsya - Akh! Istomilas ya gorem

Track length5:48

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A yesli mne v otvet - O da, minovali stradanya

Track length8:44

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Excerpt, Giordano, U: Fedora

Work length16:06

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Mirella Freni, Luis Lima
Wiener Staatsoper
Fabio Luisi

Loris Ipanoff, oggi Io Czar ... Mia madre, la mia

Track length9:10

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Vedi io piango ma se piango

Track length6:56

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Mirella Freni, who celebrated her 75th birthday a few weeks ago, is one of the exceptional singers who have emerged from Italy, the home of opera. And unlike those other 'exceptional' talents who crop up every few years (and who often disappear just as quickly), Mirella Freni’s standing is heightened by the exceptional length of her career, which was so rich in peaks and free of troughs. That success finds confirmation in this selection of archive recordings chosen from more than the three decades Mirella Freni sang at the Vienna State Opera.

She began with a sensational debut as Mimì in Puccini’s La Bohème. Within the space of six months, her Mimì had won the public’s heart at both La Scala, Milan and in Vienna, both under Herbert von Karajan. Her Rodolfo at the time was Gianni Raimondi, though the Viennese archives also document her longstanding partnerships with Luciano Pavarotti (Carlos Kleiber) and Plácido Domingo.

It was with Domingo (under the baton of James Levine) that Mirella Freni repeated her Salzburg Festival success, in Vienna, as Desdemona. As with her Mimì, her Elisabetta in Don Carlo under Claudio Abbado in 1989 was astonishing, for her voice had lost none of its freshness in the ten years since singing the role under Karajan.

In that same decade, she was also able to portray, convincingly, the youthful roles of Amelia in Simon Boccanegra and Manon Lescaut. Once again at Pavarotti’s side, this time for a Verdi concert in 1990, her public was inspired by excerpts from Aïda – unusual reprertoire for her.

She also proved with two Tchaikovsky roles that she was a diva in more than her mother tongue alone. Neither her Tatyana in Eugene Onegin nor her Lisa in Pique Dame (both with Seiji Ozawa at the helm) can be left out of this 'Vienna' portrait of her, as with her last role at the Vienna State Opera: her assumption of the title role in Giordano’s Fedora brought back this operatic rarity to a renewed appreciation.

Artists

Chorus and Orchestra of the Wiener Staatsoper, Herbert von Karajan, García Navarro, Carlos Kleiber, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Claudio Abbado, James Levine, Hans Graf, Roberto Abbado, Seiji Ozawa, Fabio Luisi

Reviews

November 2010

the spontaneity of the theatre brings a special vividness to all of these interpretations...Freni portrays every character very touchingly indeed, especially Elisabetta...[She] blazes through the Letter Scene, recorded in 1988, seemingly consumed by Tatyana's feelings

Mirella Freni: Opera Arias 1963 - 1995

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